Applying FireFly Algorithm to Solve the Problem of Balancing Curricula
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 1
Abstract
The problem of assigning a balanced academic curriculum to academic periods of a curriculum, that is, the balancing curricula, represents a traditional challenge for every educational institution which look for a match among students and professors. This article proposes a solution for the balancing curricula problem using an optimization technique based on the attraction of fireflies (FA) meta-heuristic. We perform a set of test and real instances to measure the performance of our solution proposal just looking to deliver a system that will simplify the process of designing a curricular network in higher education institutions. The obtained results show that our solution achieves a fairly fast convergence and finds the optimum known in most of the tests carried out.
Authors and Affiliations
Jose´ Miguel Rubio, Cristian L. Vidal-Silva, Ricardo Soto, Erika Madariaga, Franklin Johnson, Luis Carter
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- DOI 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100108
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